Time travel with Mirror of Erised. Was: The mirror onthe website

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 120658


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:

Alla:

> Good point, Geoff, but let me ask you a little bit more general 
> question.
> 
> Do you believe that Harry is going to be time traveling to ... 
> somewhere? Do you think that JKR answered "Not telling" to the 
> question "Whether Harry will be time travelling again" for a reason 
> or she was just having fun?

<snip.

> What am I getting at? I am almost positive that Harry time 
travelled 
> somewhere, I just don't know where and Mirror of Erised seems like 
a 
> fun device to do it.

Geoff:

I haven't looked at this one because I haven't given any deep thought 
to time travelling by Harry.

Several posters have, in the past, said that they hoped JKR would not 
make a habit of using this as a plot device. To be quite frank, I 
would see it as a deus-ex-machina being used to get us out of awkward 
corners in the story. Perhaps I am a simple soul because I really 
don't see some of the more complicated plot theories - from the 
possible to the wacky - coming to pass. JKR has produced unusual 
twists in the story before but not on every page and although she 
likes to tease us with cryptic comments, I would feel unhappy with a 
story which finished up deluged with time-travelled and/or Polyjuiced 
characters coming out of the woodwork on every page in Book 7.

On a slightly different point, in message 120651, vmonte added:

"In the movie Harry only hears his mother
scream. I wonder if this change was made because the voice Harry is
assuming to be of his father is really someone else. Would the movie
audience have recognized the voice as being another HP character?"

This would not necessarily be a problem /if/ the person was Time-
travelled!Harry because he would be a 17 or 18 year old and they 
would use a different actor to represent an older Harry.